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The gensuitemodule module creates a Python package implementing stub code
for the AppleScript suites that are implemented by a specific application,
according to its AppleScript dictionary.

It is usually invoked by the user through the PythonIDE, but it can
also be run as a script from the command line (pass --help for help on
the options) or imported from Python code. For an example of its use see
Mac/scripts/genallsuites.py in a source distribution, which generates
the stub packages that are included in the standard library.

Returns true if application, which should be passed as a pathname, appears
to be scriptable. Take the return value with a grain of salt: Internet
Explorer appears not to be scriptable but definitely is.

Create a stub package for application, which should be passed as a full
pathname. For a .app bundle this is the pathname to the bundle, not to
the executable inside the bundle; for an unbundled CFM application you pass the
filename of the application binary.

This function asks the application for its OSA terminology resources, decodes
these resources and uses the resultant data to create the Python code for the
package implementing the client stubs.

output is the pathname where the resulting package is stored, if not
specified a standard “save file as” dialog is presented to the user.
basepkgname is the base package on which this package will build, and
defaults to StdSuites. Only when generating StdSuites itself do
you need to specify this. edit_modnames is a dictionary that can be used to
change modulenames that are too ugly after name mangling. creator_signature
can be used to override the 4-char creator code, which is normally obtained from
the PkgInfo file in the package or from the CFM file creator signature.
When dump is given it should refer to a file object, and processfile
will stop after decoding the resources and dump the Python representation of the
terminology resources to this file. verbose should also be a file object,
and specifying it will cause processfile to tell you what it is doing.

This function does the same as processfile, except that it uses a different
method to get the terminology resources. It opens application as a resource
file and reads all "aete" and "aeut" resources from this file.